CyberDefenders: GrabThePhisher

This Blue Team challenge was released on 7/23/2022 from CyberDefenders. You can access the room at https://cyberdefenders.org/blueteam-ctf-challenges/95. This is one of the easiest challenges I’ve ever encountered from CyberDefenders.org. This is a perfect challenge for beginners who just want to get their feet wet in doing hacking/IR challenges. The skills/tools to be tested and needed …

Well-Crafted Spear-Phishing Caught by our SEG

One or more employees of a Healthcare System had their email account(s) taken over by malicious user(s). An email was sent to some of our employees, luckily our SEG positively identified the email as a spear-phishing attempt. The malicious emails were automatically quarantined, but I went ahead and looked it up anyway as I was …

Informational: Phishing Attempt Uncovered on 8/18/2020

Below is the phishing email’s message body: 2. The “CLICK HERE” is the phishing link that takes you to a spoofed Microsoft Office login page: The real destination URL of the “CLICK HERE” link The spoofed Microsoft Office login page 3. Sender information: 4. The originating location of the email is Los Angeles, CA: Update …

Real World “Credential-Stealing” Phishing Email SEG-Missed

We have heard it many times that Email Phishing and Social Engineering are the hardest threat vectors to remediate. Or should I say, there is no perfect solution against them since they target end users and their security awareness. Not even the cybersecurity training firm giant, SANS, is exempted to falling victim to a phishing …